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Mia Mai is an ecosystem builder who connects portfolio projects to Web3 communities, leverages Asia experience to open cross-regional opportunities like Africa, leads real-world asset strategy and maintains company relationships.

Vincent Lau is Chief Executive Officer of Golfamore and serves as an advisor and board member in the media, sports, direct-to-consumer, and entertainment sectors. Over more than 20 years, he has worked in media, entertainment, and digital businesses, including reversing revenue and audience decline at MTV Oy in Finland, leading commercial operations at Discovery Sweden, and overseeing Scandinavian expansion at Clear Channel. His work has included P&L transformations, building commercial organizations, and structuring partnerships with media groups across the Nordics.

Xiao Xiao is a Singapore-based partner focused on early-stage, cross-border investing, recognized for insights on AI–blockchain convergence in Web3 and featured by Nasdaq TradeTalks at Singapore Fintech Festival.

Stella Yang is a VC investor at Global Ventures, where she works with founders across the Middle East and Africa. She is a member of the Italian Founders Fund community and a graduate of Cornell University. Educated across six countries, she is fluent in three languages.

Jim Robertson serves as Executive Vice President of Private Debt at ATEL Capital Group. He has 34 years of experience in the financial services industry spanning sales in asset management and fintech, marketing, product development, and client service. His work has included raising traditional and alternative assets across the institutional, intermediary, and high-net-worth markets, as well as involvement in the development of three products or platforms serving institutional and high-net-worth channels.

Founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital, managing its principal fund since 1997. Born in China, he earned BA, JD, and MBA from Columbia University, is a Caltech trustee, co-founded The Asian American Foundation, and is an author and elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jacob Zhao is Vice President at Metropolitan Partners Group, where his work involves project management, data analysis, and financial modeling. Over more than six years, he has worked on organizational transformations in the public and private sectors, including stakeholder management, investor pitches, and corporate communications. He holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University with a specialization in International Finance and Economic Policy, along with a PMP certification.

Jin Ming is a Senior Investment Research Associate at HashKey Capital. He writes a newsletter, Funding Signals, covering private market investments across crypto, technology, and AI, and has built a platform- and model-agnostic personal agentic operating system.

I need to flag an inconsistency here: the profile name is "Ombelle Zhang," but the About section describes "Li Lu" throughout. Since the biographical facts belong to a person named Li Lu and the identity is ambiguous/contradictory, I'll write the bio based on the consistent facts about the individual described. Li Lu is the founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital, an investment firm focused on long-term opportunities in Asia and the United States, and has run its principal fund, Himalaya Capital Investors, LP, since January 1998. Born and raised in China, he earned a B.A. in Economics from Columbia College, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School simultaneously. He serves on the Boards of Trustees of Columbia University and the California Institute of Technology, and is featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibition "Many

Phuang Jing Yi is a Senior Business Manager at HashKey Capital. Her work focuses on fintech research and the practical applications of blockchain across industries.

Siya Yang is Director of Real Estate and Alternative Investments at Frind Properties, where the role involves managing a single-owner family office's investment portfolio across asset classes including real estate, private equity, and venture capital. Yang has over 25 years of experience in private capital markets as a limited partner, general partner, and institutional investor, with prior work in deal origination and due diligence of renewable energy assets across the Americas and earlier positions as a credit portfolio manager and financial manager at global and regional banks. Yang is fluent in English and Spanish.

Member of CIF's Advisory Board (volunteer).

Joined the Guardians in April 2024 after eight years as CEO of Funds SA in South Australia, bringing over 30 years of investment management experience across Australian organisations. She holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Matthew Le Merle is Managing Partner and CEO of Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors. His career has included work as a strategy advisor, professional services firm leader, corporate executive, and private equity and venture capital investor, with Chairman and Non-Executive Director roles across 15 public and private companies. Earlier he spent 21 years advising Fortune 500 leadership at McKinsey & Company, A.T. Kearney, Monitor Group, and Booz & Company, and served as an SVP at Gap Inc.; he holds degrees from Christ Church, Oxford and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Joined the Guardians in 2016 and became Co-CIO in 2024, previously Head of Direct Investments overseeing global direct/private equity, internally managed listed equities and machine learning strategies. He holds degrees from Victoria University of Wellington and completed INSEAD's Advanced Management Programme.